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Good Gardens Begin With 
GOOD SEED... 
Goop seEeED is the first fundamental 
of successful gardening. The most 
careful grower cannot succeed with 
poor seed even though he gives close 
attention to all the other factors of 
production. The ability of seed to 
produce a satisfactory and desirable 
crop cannot be determined by the ap- 
pearance of the seed. It is for this rea- 
son that the selective cooperative service 
of Eastern States is of real assistance 
to vegetable growers whether they 
operate in their back yards or on a 
market gardening basis. Eastern States 
seed is seed of known performance. 
The parentage and past perform- 
ance of a seed stock are the indexes 
Eastern States relies on in appraising 
future crop producing power. 
yx Selection: To make this program 
effective, the Eastern States Plant In- 
dustry Project, through extensive 
trials at Feeding Hills, Massachu- 
setts, and at other points in vegetable 
areas, tests seed stocks for distribution. 
Every lot of vegetable seed distrib- 
uted by Eastern States is included 
in these trials. Adaptation, trueness 
to type, productivity, and resistance 
to or freedom from disease are care- 
fully studied. Varieties or strains 
must prove their worth before they 
are made available to Eastern States 
members. 
x Breeding: In conjunction with 
the trial work, plant breeding work 
is also constantly in progress for the 
improvement of present varieties and 
the creation of new and better ones. 
The purpose of all this careful work 
is to determine and make available 
